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Meg Wolitzer
A droll, precise novel about a charismatic teacher and her group of favorite students. Witty, chilling, divine.
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2018 was Spark’s centenary year and her most famous creation is still very much in her prime. Meet the ‘Brodie Set,’ six girls singled out by their teacher, to receive a worldly, and finally deadly, education at Marcia Blaine School in 1930s Edinburgh. As brilliant as it is brief, I find something new every time I re-read it. Feminism, fascism, the classic doubleness of a city that embraces the Old and New Towns. The crème de la crème!
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